agency

(1) “agency” means an Executive agency, except a Government corporation and the Government Accountability Office, but does not include— (A) any agency or unit thereof excluded from coverage by the President under subsection (c) of this section; or (B) the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, Department of Defense intelligence activities the civilian employees of which are subject to section 1590 of title 10 , and, as determined by the President, an Executive agency, or unit thereof, whose principal function is the conduct of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities; (C) the Federal Election Commission or the Election Assistance Commission; (D) the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision,, the Resolution Trust Corporation, the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the National Credit Union Administration, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and the Office of Financial Research; (E) the Securities and Exchange Commission; or (F) the Commodity Futures Trading Commission;